"As many have observed, fear weakens the determination to protect rights when an assurance is given that to diminish those rights will protect us and, in any event, if you have nothing to hide you won't need those rights anyway.
And people buy that logic. Thus, we are kept in fear of terrorism though no terrorist attack has yet occurred on Australian soil. All this occurred under the stewardship of a Prime Minister who quickly recognised the benefits of incumbency and the ease with which frightened voters would be content to empower police forces and intelligence agencies in a way they could not previously have dreamed of."
So says high-profile QC, Lex Lasry, in The Age, in an edited version of a talk given by him at Melbourne University. Lasry has been involved in many cases notably, of late, the van Nguyen case in Singapore and the first alleged terror case in Australia of Jack Thomas.
Read Lasry's insightful piece here - and reflect on how very right he is. Sadly, there are too few voices being heard speaking out on the critical subject of our rights and liberties being eroded.
And people buy that logic. Thus, we are kept in fear of terrorism though no terrorist attack has yet occurred on Australian soil. All this occurred under the stewardship of a Prime Minister who quickly recognised the benefits of incumbency and the ease with which frightened voters would be content to empower police forces and intelligence agencies in a way they could not previously have dreamed of."
So says high-profile QC, Lex Lasry, in The Age, in an edited version of a talk given by him at Melbourne University. Lasry has been involved in many cases notably, of late, the van Nguyen case in Singapore and the first alleged terror case in Australia of Jack Thomas.
Read Lasry's insightful piece here - and reflect on how very right he is. Sadly, there are too few voices being heard speaking out on the critical subject of our rights and liberties being eroded.
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